Plans for a solar farm in east Cork are being challenged by residents who claim it will lead to the industrialisation of a rural setting, writes Seán McCárthaigh    

A woman was frightened for her life by a young man who tried to strangle her and also trashed her home.

WHEN you have the option of downloading apps such as Strava and Map My Ride to your phone, creating your own cycling routes or browsing someone else’s, why would you buy a book compiling nearly 50 cycles around Munster?

Thirteen people yesterday pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud insurance firms by taking part in staged road accidents.

Midleton Food and Drink Festival is a major achievement for the East Cork area and for the organisers, with over 25,000 people attending the Festival annually since its launch in 2004. 

Twenty people are facing charges of fraud following a garda investigation into car accidents that were allegedly staged to claim insurance payouts.

A large parish, embracing three villages, is united in anticipation and excitement as it prepares for a first-ever St Patrick’s Day festival parade.

A graphically well-designed menu suggests cheering possibility like a well-dressed Christmas tree levitating on a bed of beautifully-packed gifts, some labelled with your name in generous Auntie Betty’s clear, strong, knowing hand. 

A group concerned about the impact of pylons are impressed by an innovative biomass project, writes Claire O’Sullivan

Charities which provide dogs to help people cope with disabilities say there are 1,000 people on their books they can’t help because they don’t get proper funding from the Government.

FOR OUR May Slow Food East Cork event we returned to Sage Restaurant in Midleton to celebrate the local food.

THE villages and townlands of Dungourney, Clonmult, Lisgoold and Leamlara lie about 13km north of Midleton in East Cork.

I have been monitoring the proposals for a conference centre in Cork City. This is a great opportunity, if we look at the greater scheme of things.

Gardaí believe three burglars threw a stolen shotgun, a flatscreen TV, a laptop, and other property out of their car when they panicked and fled after crashing through a routine checkpoint.

Senior HSE and ambulance officials have been summoned to explain, in person, to Cork County Council why no ambulance was made available to take Vakaris Martinaitis to hospital after falling from an upstairs bedroom window.

A builder who lost his job after 25 years resorted to growing cannabis at his home because he could see no other way out of his financial problems.

The world’s youngest app developer was just another kid beside the dozens of Irish students teaching Europe to write code in a European Parliament meeting room.

All’s well that ends well. The Clash of the Titans that took place over Caherduggan Demesne in Leamlara, east Cork, was quietly settled in a complete turnabout this week.

As part of an ongoing major surveillance operation against suspected dissident republicans, gardaí arrested two men and seized a handgun, ammunition and a car near woods in North Cork.

Two men have been held overnight by gardaí in Co Cork in connection with suspected dissident republican activity.

Gardaí have arrested two men following the recovery of a firearm in Co Cork yesterday evening.

I am extremely disappointed with the response of your paper to the calls for a retraction and apology regarding the wildly inaccurate article written by Dr Tony Humphreys (Feelgood).

THE sea is less than a mile from this farm at Loughane, Ladysbridge, Co Cork, which brings a frost-free environment for this fine, level tillage farm.

DISAPPOINTING summer weather wasn’t going to put paid to Shanagarry ICA’s plans to hold a Big Picnic for Barretstown.

Tommy Barker finds coincidence and variations in two identically-priced homes.

A GARDA with a grievance against his brother-in-law brought malicious prosecutions against him and contravened the direct orders of his Superintendent to do so, a High Court judge ruled in a judgement yesterday.

THE pint is poured in one constituency, handed over the counter and drunk in another.

CHRISTINA DONNELLY rings her son’s mobile phone every time she visits his grave.

A 28-year-old man has appeared before Midleton District Court charged in connection with a fatal crash in east Cork last year.

TWO prime pieces of tillage ground a mile apart at Leamlara and Lisgoold hit the east Cork land market this week as part of an executor’s sale, through Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith.

PEOPLE are flocking to food fairs around the country.

OVER most of the country outside Dublin there is, in effect, no road transport available for people who do not have a car.

THE two little girls playing tea party in the sparse room of the orphanage caught John O’Riordan’s eye.

Met Eireann have issued an ice and snow warning as freezing fog and flurries of snow plagued parts of the country.

ONE of the Government’s night-time rural bus services which was piloted in a handful of north Cork villages could be expanded across the region to combat rural isolation.

GARDAÍ were following a definite line of inquiry last night after seizing €140,000 worth of cocaine from an English-registered car parked on Cork’s northside.

Gardaí are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions after releasing three people without charge in connection with a drugs seizure in East Cork on Friday.

Two men are still being questioned in connection with Thursday's huge drugs find in a Dublin warehouse.

A FATHER and his daughter were among three people in custody last night following a €500,000 cocaine seizure in Cork.

A man and two women were being questioned by detectives after drugs worth €60,000 were seized during a house raid in Co Cork, gardaí said tonight.